Crack of Israeli bullets ends activists' protest against barrier

[Tom Joad]

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article485025.ece

At first, at least, there is an almost carnival spirit among the few dozen demonstrators gathering at the gap in the separation barrier, which at this point is deep inside the occupied West Bank. The speeches and chanting against the barrier, whose route has swallowed 200 acres of Bil'in's farming land, proceed calmly for half an hour or so.

And then the mood suddenly changes. A few of the protesters try to move back the roll of barbed wire in front of the border police jeeps blocking the entry to an outpost of the Jewish settlement of Modiin Illit. At the same time, well away from the demonstrators at the barrier, some stones are thrown. Almost instantly there is the crack of rubber bullets fired by the policemen. Despite regulations requiring a minimum 40-metre range, the first are fired directly at the protesters. An American activist is hit in the head - he was released from an Israeli hospital on Sunday - and the demo organisers say that in this and later incidents, seven Palestinians are injured.

This ritual, repeated every Friday over 16 months, is probably the highest profile joint action between Palestinians and (some left-wing activist) Israelis. Its single purpose is to protest against a barrier declared unlawful by the International Court of Justice.

It is a far cry from hope of a lasting peace which began to sweep through much of the two publics around the time of the first Oslo accords in 1993.
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Presented for those who do not know about nonviolent protest against a brutal occupation in Palestine.
The question is not "Why don't Palestinians protest their grievances nonviolently", but why, why, don't more liberal/progressives in the United States support this movement for justice and dignity?

Still, there is a growing awareness, and the tide is turning against Occupation and Oppression. It is mighty slow, however.

[pelsar]

1. do you really want an answer?

but why, why, don't more liberal/progressives in the United States support this movement for justice and dignity?
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because there is one...and for those who dont wear the "blinders of the far left" its pretty clear.....